Actually, if I remember correctly, they were exploring the native voodoo culture and music of Haiti when they did this album.

I always thought they were pulling from Native American music on this one.

Eh.  Like the band. This song...not so much.

Holy s$#t make it stop!!!!

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I always thought they were pulling from Native American music on this one.

I was a big, big fan of DCD, and latterly Lisa Gerrard when the duo dissolved. This, though, was an absolute turkey of an album, a gobbler, a real mother clucker. Whilst Gerrard and Perry succeeded well in plundering other musical styles in preceding albums, they completely failed with their homage to / rip-off of African styles. I gave this effort two listens then took it down the charity shop.

Of all the DCD songs in all the DCD albums in the world, RP just had to play this one. Not a fitting representative of DCD's innovative and seminal body of work. 

It's interesting reading some of the comments for the this tune and others like it.  The comments about "ripping off" other cultures or musical styles is rather naive.  As someone involved in a creative field, I can point out that while creative purity has a certain cache to it, it really falls quite short of creative reality and creative goals.  The shallow goal is sort of akin to the selective/eugenic motives that lead to the problems of hemophilia in the European aristocracy or hip dyslexia in pure-bred dogs — without cross-pollination, we'd be hearing endless musical dead-ends.  If you've never witnessed a live jazz performance, you might want to try it out, because that scene is all about collaborative interplay and the understanding that no individual player knows what the other players are going to add next to the mix, so the sum of the parts outweighs the individual pieces and it's almost as if they toss a musical ball back and forth; this is the ultimate in borrowing.

Clearly, all of DCD's music draws heavily from other music (it's name says it all), and so does all rock and roll — they all have "ripped off" the Blues, so does that mean we should toss all rock 'n roll out?  Or the Blues because they copied many rythmic patterns from the African songs of the slaves?  Or how about several of Mozart, Bach, and Berlioz' works, amongst those of many others, because they reused and tweaked the "Dies Irae?"  I agree that DCD has written better material, but that misses the point that this tune could subjectively be better than 75% of the rest of the music that came forth at the same time as this piece.  It may not be their best, and it may have threads of others' creative work, but if it sounds good, then that's what counts, and I happen to like it.